Renewal
I started this blog so I could get this information about SRF into the hands of anyone searching the internet for information. I am taking a short detour to write about what is happening for me without a religion or Guru.
Though this blog may seem a bit negative in the sense that it is an expose' of information I wish I would have had 30 years ago, my life is not about exposing SRF. I personally don't care that much about them at this point in my life. I spend most of my time caring for others, walking, singing, feeding people, working out and meditating. Instead of using my time and money for the "Gurus work" I now can use those resources in the care and feeding of my fellow beings.
With Spring around the corner, the daffodils daffolling, crocuses croaking and frogs singing in the ponds around my house, I feel that sense of renewal and rebirth that people throughout time have celebrated. I was reflecting on this sense of new life while meditating yesterday. Sitting down during my walk, I looked out at the vast body of water before me and felt the inner peace that has moved the hearts of mankind since the beginning. I felt the gratitude for life and the wonder of its gift. The thing that links us with our most primitive ancestors and people all over and of all time. A sense that life is good and we are nourished.
Free at last from the confining shackles of Guru pictures, dogma, doctrine and vows. Free from the grip of "perfect" Gurus and the "all-knowing" interruptions of God by others. Now at last I have God with me and it is a God that no Guru can bestow or intervene or intercept with. This is the true oneness with God.
As I move on to tell "the rest of the story", I want to say that I do this with no malice or anger. SRF is not that important to me. I just want others to be able to find this information without having to pay the price I have paid to get it.
Peace and Best Wishes,
Katie
Sounds good to me. I had the same sense of freedom when i left school when i was 17. I was my own person, no religion any more, no shackles, just my own life for myself from then on and other people as people without labels and so on. To have to have gone through a cult to get into my middle age only to re-experience this sense of freedom again seems like a waste of time but in fact i learnt more than i probably otherwise would have. So it is a blessing in disguise. And that is why this blog is so good for me now because with the witticisms and fun about Yogananda and SRF it is great fun!
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D (Yogistar)
How beautiful! And I think you are cherishing your freedom precisely because you once gave it up to someone (a seemingly god-like guru) - and wrested it back from him! As for me, I have kind of completed the same process, only I don't know yet what to do with that new-found freedom...
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Hi Michael,
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion you (and I) are currently in the most difficult and yet most fulfilling part of the spiritual process. The time when we find our own way and become our own "Guru".
Personally, I have found that God speaks directly to my heart now that there isn't a guru wedged between us. It is better this way.
Thank you for your comments.
Peace and blessings to you,
Katie